> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Michael Sedkowski wrote:
> > Dnia 06-08-2007, Pn o godzinie 11:23 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> > napisa??(a):
> > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > > Cc'ing Henrique. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Check if /etc/init.d/halt is calling halt(8) with the -h flag. If it is,
> > > remove that -h flag. Usually, there is a hddown variable that holds it, you
> > > just need to get rid of it.
> > >
> > > I don't know anything about a Sidux, though.
> >
> > Well there is an -h variable:
> > # Don't shut down drives if we're using RAID.
> > hddown="-h"
> > if grep -qs '^md.*active' /proc/mdstat
> > then
> > hddown=""
> > fi
> > ....
> > log_action_msg "Will now halt"
> > halt -d -f $netdown $poweroff $hddown
> > However removing it has no effect, the drive still spins down two times.
>
> Nothing in Debian userspace will spin down the drive if you kill that -h, at
> least as far as I know.
>
> > Sidux is a Debian Unstable based distro with it's own set of patches
> > including the shut down patch provided here:
> >
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426224
>
> You'll probably have to ask Sidux what changes they made that could cause
> the double spin down, even if halt(8) is never passed the -h flag.
>
